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October 7, 2013 Topics of the Month
The ROK-US Alliance – 3

Defining Future Goals of the ROK-US Alliance During the Cold War era, South Korea anchored its security policy mainly to deterrence against the North Korean threat. The main […]

Chun Chaesung*

Alliance functions, regional security architecture, Reunification, Sino-US Relations
October 7, 2013 Special Forum
Introduction to Special Forum on Strategic Thinking about North Korea

North Korea has been discussed widely, especially since Kim Jong-un took the reins after Kim Jong-il’s death. Yet, not often is it considered to be a subject of […]

Editorial Staff

Denuclearization, infographics, Putin’s pivot, regional balance of power, Reunification, Sino-US cooperation, Sinocentrism, testing US alliances, triangles
October 7, 2013 Special Forum
Chinese Strategic Thinking Regarding North Korea

In 2013, China is faced with the challenge of weighing the alternative goals of a favorable balance of power in Northeast Asia, a process of reunification on the […]

Cheng Xiaohe*

Balance of power, historical lessons, reunification conditions
October 7, 2013 Special Forum
South Korea’s Strategic Thinking on North Korea and Beyond

For more than six decades, South Korea has coped with one of the most enduring geopolitical asymmetries in the world, namely, the South-North conundrum on the Korean Peninsula. […]

Lee Chung Min*

hybrid security template, need for security guidance, North Korea, North Korea challenges, opinion surveys, polarized worldviews
October 7, 2013 Special Forum
North Korea in Japan’s Strategic Thinking

Through the repeated cycles of North Korean missile and nuclear testing, negotiations, and sanctions that have characterized international reaction to Pyongyang’s proliferation, Japan has gradually lost ground it […]

Sheila A. Smith

Alliance challenges, Japanese Abductees, military strategy, missile threat
October 7, 2013 Special Forum
Russian Strategic Thinking Regarding North Korea

For Russia the DPRK is not a normal state. The two facts that it is one of Russia’s nearest neighbors and it was founded by the Soviet Union […]

Alexander Lukin

priority of nuclear issue, Putin’s impact, soft position on pressure, Soviet approach, views of experts and politicians, views on unification
October 7, 2013 National Commentaries
Japanese Perspective: Complacency and Indecisiveness in Japan’s New One-Party Dominance and Foreign Policy

This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703

Nakano Koichi*

Abe Shinzo, complacency, indecisiveness, LDP fragility, one-party dominance, US response to rightward drift
October 5, 2013 Open Forum
Economic Priorities and Geopolitical Advantages

After World War II, the structure of geopolitical competition changed. New economic strategies created extraordinarily high growth rates that enabled countries to become major powers quickly by focusing […]

William H. Overholt

economic strategies, geopolitical strategies, peaceful rises, Rebalancing
October 4, 2013 Open Forum
Modeling a “New Type of Great Power Relations”: A Chinese Viewpoint

Forging a “new type of great power relations” is a novel foreign relations concept that China has proposed and emphasized of late, drawing widespread attention. It has taken […]

Ren Xiao*

established power, New type of great power relations, rising power, Xi Jinping
October 4, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: China (October 2013)

Chinese writings on international relations in the Asia-Pacific region continue to be the most prolific and informative in comparison to Japanese, Korean, and Russian writings. Despite censorship and […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Pang Zengjun)

Bipolarity, economic regionalims, equal dialogue with US, India, Japan’s threat, North Korean buffer, Park Geun-hye, SCO, seapower, Shinzo Abe, Sino-Russian alliance